A 73-year-old Puglia man graduated in medicine at a Naples university earlier this week 54 years after starting the course and then dropping out.
Enzo Fernando Buccoliero commissioned a coach to bring his friends, grandchildren and great grandchildren from Sava near Taranto to see him get his degree in medicine and surgery at Vanvitelli University Tuesday.
"It is an exemplary story of resilience," said his rapporteur Professor Antonio Gallo after Buccoliero, who had remained on the university roll for the 54 years, discussed his thesis on Parkinson's.
The new graduate told reporters "my brother was graduating in literature here in Naples, and he got me to enroll. Then he got life in the way".
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